Improvement in animal-pokes



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I ISAAC urncx, or OOHOOTON, new-YORK.

IMPROYEMENTIN ANl MAL-POKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,901, dated October 1, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC N. PECK, of Gohocton, in the county of Steuben and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pokes for Animals; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the a'ccompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved poke; Fig. 2 represents a side view of the head of the poke with its appendages and a portion of the poke-lever; Fig. 3 represents the face of the adjustable nut; and Fig. 4 is aside view of the same.

80 as to move with the spring 0, against which it rests. Three or more sharp-pointed pins, 00, are hinged to the plate D, and extend into suitable holes made through the head-block B,as represented in Fig. '2. I indicates adj listing-nut, secured by a screw to the front of the poke-lever. This nut is so formed and fastened that it may be turned in its seat, so as to serve as a stop, to limit and vary the extent of the movem ent of the spring 0 and the pins as, which are connected with the plate D. Th e nut is represented in Fig. 2 with its ledge 1 in position to arrest the plate D and its pins as when the spring 0 is compressed between the plate and head-block;

and when the nut I is so adjusted as to bring the side 2 under the edge of plate D, it will serve to prevent the points of the pins X from the side 3 of the nut I is turned toward the plate I) the latter will pass by it when pressed between the head-block and the yoke A, thus permitting the points of pins X to be thrust out to their greatest extent.

When yoke A rests upon the neck of an animal, and the lever Nis pressed against an object, the head-block B, resting against the animal, will, with the yoke A, compress the spring 0, and force the plate D to thrust the points as out through the head-block, so as to enter the breast of the animal carrying the poke to the extent limited by the adjustingnut I.

By this adaptation of the adjustable nut the poke may be used to restrain the most vicious and breachy animals, by allowing the pins to come in contact with the animal as stated; or it may, by an adjustment of the nut I, be used without allowing the pins X to be brought into action, or to be brought into action only to a limited degree.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is t V The combination of the adjustable nut I with the spring 0, plate D, and pins r, arranged and used upon the poke, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of March, A. D. 1872.

' ISAAC N. PEG K.

Witnesses H. P. K. PEGK, A. O. PARSONS. 

